Sectional concrete building.



G. ZEIMET.

SEOTIONAL CONCRETE BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED APR,25

1,072,293. Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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INVE/VTUR [201/0 Z @1722 e i AIM/MEN CARLO ZEIMET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SECTIONAL CONCRETE BUILDING.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

latcnted Sept. 75. HHS.

Application filed April 25. 1912. Serial No. 693,102.

Be it known that 1, (auto Zmiun'r, a citizen ot' the. United States, and a resident of the city of New York. borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and lmproved Sectional (iloncrete Building, of which the tollowing is a full, elear, and exact description.

This invention relates to building eonstrnctions and has particl'llar reference to a building composed of substantially uniform building blocks made of concrete or the like and adapted to be shipp'ed to any part of the world and there erected with i'acility, whereby a building of a substantial character may be formed with facility and which building furthermore will possess a pleasing ehan acter with respect to svmmetry and appearance.

Among the object's ot the invention is to provide a means whereb a building may he erected by a party having little or no special skill iii the building art simply by following the directions and using the materials snpplied to him in the manner above indicated.

The foregoing and other objects of this invention will hereinafter be fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings accompanying this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, somewhat diagrammatic, indicating the nature of a building made in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of a fragment of a cornice; Fig. 3 is a plan view of a fragment of a corner piece and a fragment of the wall connected thereto. Fig. 4 is a plan view of an upper part of one or more of the building sectiims; Fig. 5 is a transverse section substantially indicated by the broken line 5-5 of Fig. 1; Fig. (ids a bottom plan view of adjacent building sections; and Figs. 7 and 8 are vertical views in detail of the floor, the views being at right angles to each other.

Referring particularly to Fig. 1, according to this invention, 1 construct a building of substantially any desired size or dimen sions and use in so doing a certain definite number of what I may term building seetions or units, each unit comprising a detinite number of elements or blocks and having a unil'orm dimension throt'ighout the building. .'\s shown, each-unit as applied to a window comprises six blocks numbered 1 to ti inclusive. For iainvenience oi dcscription, the blocks 1, 2 and are arranged in alinemcnt at their lower ends. the blocks 1 and U are arranged in vertical ali'neinent with the blocks 1 and l respectively. and the block 5 rests upon the shoulders near the upper ends of the blocks -l and t. as indicated at. 1?. The blocks l, I) and t) are so designed that their upper slnl accs lie in the same plane and constitute the base tor the next adjacent unit to be placed thereupon.

The building unit as applied to a door section is similar to the window section, but with the block :2 omitted. all the other blocks being precisely the same as those previously described. In the use oi the unit as a panel se tion. that is to say. without a window or a. door. in addition to the previously named six blocks or elements. l insert two blocks '4 and b above and upon the block .2 which till the. space represented bv a window opening. reaching l'roni the block '3 to the block 5.

lflach vertical edge or surlace ol :1 building element which is to be connected to an adjacent vertical surface is provided with a V-shaped groove and the mating grooves of adjacent elements are to be tilled when the blocks are. assembled with a plastic cement of any suitable character which, when set or hardened, constitutes a rigid and durable connection for the several parts of the coin struction. As shown in Fig. 5 for instance. the blocks 3 and 5 are provided with grooves 3 and 1 into the bottoms oi which are arranged vertically disposed rods lti, preterably two of such rods being in the bottom of each groove, and the upper ends ol such rods are spaced and bound in detinite rela tion to each other by transverse bars 17, as shown in Fig. l. The grooves 3 provide means for introducing a window frame, and such grooves incidental to a door opening provide in a like manner means for introducing a door frame of any suitable character.

As shown in Fig. :land in the upper part of Fig. 1, the upper ends of the blocks -iland 6 have the grooves 1- and t5 connnunicating with one another each to each and with the grooves 5 of the alined lintels 5, whereby the rods 17 will be received as above set forth. iiy this arrangement it will be impossible for any one of the blocks or elements to become displaced laterally with re spect to the adjacent element's.

llach corner of the building comprises a sion of corner blocks (Z andside blocks 0 connected each to each by cement. The ad jacent ends of the blocks (Z at a corner are recessed as indicated at d or in any other suitable manner. Each block a rests centrally and squarely upon the upper end or what may be termed a column formed by the sections 6 and 4t abutting against each other, the ends of such block 6 terminating substantially, therefore, centrally of the respective adjacent building units.

' The floor maybe constructed in any suitable manner but for this purpose I prefer to use a series of longitudinal parallel inverted T-beamslS. Between the adjacent beams 18 and supported upon the flanges 18 thereof are blocks or panels 19, the adjacent lat eral edges 19 of which are spaced slightly and beveled off at their upper corners, such space including the space formed by the bevels being filled with cement 20 ilush with the surface of such blocks, thereby forming a smooth solid floor flush with the upper edges of the beams.

The inner walls or partitions may be constructed in any suitable manner, but preferably as indicated in Fig. 1 they are com posed of a series of blocks 21 whose adjacent vertical edges are formed with grooves and filled with reinforced concrete or cement in the manner previously described in connection with the outer walls.

From what has been said it will be understood that the several building units will be of uniform size and dimension, but I wish it to be understood that I am not to be limited as to such dimension, reserving the right to modify such idea and also otherwise vary the details of construction to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The herein described building construction comprising a plurality of blocks, cer

tain of said blocks'being arranged vertically and edge to edge, said blocks having shoulders arranged on their opposite edges forming seats, a pair of lintels arranged in aline ment with each other and having their adjacent ends resting upon said seats, and bonding means securing all of said parts together, the first mentioned blocks being provided with registering grooves extendiug to their upper ends, the; ends of the alined lintels and the adjacent shouldered portions of the first mentioned blocks being provided with registering grooves extending from one lintel through both of said shouldcr portions into the opposite lintel, and said bonding means including reinforcements extending throughout all of said registering grooves, substantially as set forth.

CARLO ZETMET.

\Vitnesses:

EDW'ARD P. PETERSON, P. J. Fax'mx. 

